The Avengers thread(may contain spoilers)

[LucasM]

Joss Whedon's new Marvel TV show for ABC will be 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'

You can stop frantically guessing about what the super duo of Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios have up their sleeve for us next: ABC has just ordered the pilot for Joss Whedon's new Marvel TV show, "S.H.I.E.L.D."

"S.H.I.E.L.D." represents the first live-action Marvel TV show pilot to get the green light. According to Deadline Hollywood, Whedon will write "S.H.I.E.L.D." with his brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, who collaborated with Whedon on "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" and "Dollhouse." Production on the pilot will begin immediately, with the Whedons, Jeffrey Bell, and Jeph Loeb executive producing.

"S.H.I.E.L.D." of course refers to the extra-governmental agency led by Nick Fury that brought together Earth's mightiest heroes in "The Avengers." S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for "Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate" or "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division," according to Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson, and the organization exists both in the Marvel cinematic universe as well as in its own Marvel comic books series.

Ever since it was announced that Joss Whedon had signed a three-year contract with Marvel Studios to not only write and direct "The Avengers" sequel, but also to develop a live-action TV show set in the Marvel cinematic universe, fans have been buzzing about what that TV show might be. Our personal favorite theories were a show based on "The Runaways" or a Black Widow and Hawkeye series.

There is no word yet on when "S.H.I.E.L.D." will premiere, nor which Marvel Comics characters will be featured in the series.

http://www.examiner.com/article/joss-whedon-s-new-marvel-tv-show-for-abc-will-be-s-h-i-e-l-d?CID=examiner_alerts_article

What'd'ya say: ...'older' episodes with Coulson?  ...current incidents including Agent Hill (Cobie Smulders)?  [Unlikely to get Johansson Black Widow or Renner Hawkeye though... and no way in hell could I see Jackson's Fury be on TV (unless a 'flashback' episode, in which he's just starting with the organization, and played by a different actor).]

[doggans]

It would be hard to schedule Smulders as a regular, what with her being a sitcom lead on another network and all, but I would watch the HELL out of a Coulson-centric show.

[Tripe]

Oh, she's the girl from that show with Aly Hannigan and NPH in it?

Also, it's on ABC, so maybe this new relationship for Joss won't be as abusive as the last one.

Lucas: Want to cross post that ina new thread on the TV board? Unless one already exists but I didn't see it.

[a pretty girl is like]

YES!  Finally, my dream of having Wendell Elvis Vaughn on teevee will become a reality!!!

Also Texas Twister! Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[RoninFox]

Looks like buzzfeed had to take down the big video of Avengers bloopers they posted, but at least this one bit made it to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhz5o2cWKc

[LucasM]

Oh, she's the girl from that show with Aly Hannigan and NPH in it?

Also, it's on ABC, so maybe this new relationship for Joss won't be as abusive as the last one.

Lucas: Want to cross post that ina new thread on the TV board? Unless one already exists but I didn't see it.

Good idea... done.

And yeah, between it being for ABC, and likely 'pre-approved' by Marvel/Disney/ABC, he's likely to be able to do whatever he wants pretty-much, without remotely as much fear of cancellation as if it was on FOX.  Of course, with it being an Avengers tie-in, unlikely it'll have viewership issues like his more unusual shows like Firefly and Dollhouse.  Happy to see that the Whedon brother and sister-in-law will also be joining him: they did good stuff on Dollhouse* (and Dr. Horrible).

Yes, Smulders is on 'How I Met Your Mother'.  [A show I watched for the first season, then realized there was nothing at all of interest to me and I'd only been watching it to see what Hannigan was doing post-Buffy.  Not really impressed.]


  *Yes, the first season was slow, compared with the second, but Whedon had to BUILD Echo from the ground up, or no-one would have believed her abilities!  I was fine with that, as it was more subtle character-based events.  And yes, the second season was rushed, because he tried to cram about three or four seasons worth of events and information into them... one episode I remember thinking - while it was on - "shit: he probably originally had this as an entire SEASON in his head; no WONDER this episode feels too 'small' for all the info he's giving us!"

[Tripe]

And I'm pretty sure his sister in law is the hottest of Cap'n Hammer's groupies in Dr. Horrible.

[Darth Geek]

Oh cool! Avengers is back in theaters this weekend!

http://www.chud.com/105475/the-avengers-is-back-in-theaters-this-weekend/

[Relaxing Dragon]

And only $40 million away from toppling Titanic's Domestic box office record.

Come on folks, let's make it happen.

[Henry88]

http://screencrush.com/avengers-chinese-bootleg-subtitles/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_28689

oh what fun

[Darth Geek]

So did anybody check out Avengers when it was rereleased last week? Was there anything added at the end?

[Sideswipe]

I saw it last weekend, but it was for the first time.  So I don't know if they have added anything new.

[Thrifty]

And only $40 million away from toppling Titanic's Domestic box office record.

Come on folks, let's make it happen.

Well, tickets at my local theater are 10 bucks apiece, and I was thinking of going along with 3,999,998 of my closest friends this weekend.

[RoninFox]

So, finally took a pic of Ann in her Loki Charms shirt:

That's a happy girl right there.

I was on the fence on the level of awesome that shirt reached until I noticed it was "bifrosted" and that turned it up to 11.

[LucasM]

Amazon just sent this in an e-mail:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We're writing to let you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One-Avengers Assembled Collection will not be released by Marvel as originally expected. Instead, Marvel is planning to offer a similar collection in new packaging. The new collection will include the original titles offered with the first version of the item, and is expected to be available in the spring of 2013. To make this easy for you, we updated your order for the original collection and will ship the new collection when it becomes available. The price of the new collection will be the same as the original collection.